fourth sunday of easter b 2015-04-26 source: from the roman míssal catholic book publishing corp....

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER B 2015-04-26

Source: from The Roman MíssalCATHOLIC BOOK PUBLISHING CORP. NEW JERSEY 2011

and usccb.org

• 3- Entrance Antiphon• 9/111- Glory to God• 12- Collect• 15- First reading• 25- Responsorial Psalm• 33- Second reading• 44- Gospel• 55/122- Apostles Creed• (60- Nicene Creed)• 66- Preparation of the gifts• 70- Prayer over the Offerings• 77- Eucharistic Prayer II• 139- Eucharistic Prayer III• 88- Communion Rite• 98- Communion Antiphon (157) (173)• 99- Prayer after Communion (158) (174)

• 111- EUCHARISTIC PRAYER III• 162 PREFACE I OF EASTER• 177- PREFACE II OF EASTER• 182- PREFACE III OF EASTER• 187- PREFACE IV OF EASTER• 192- PREFACE V OF EASTER• 197- PREFACE I OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD

• 202- PREFACE I OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD

• Entrance Antiphon • Cf. Ps 33 (32): 5-6

• The merciful love of the Lord fills the earth;

• by the word of the Lord the heavens were made, alleluia.

• GREETING A• PRIEST: In the name of the Father,

and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

• Amen.• PRIEST: The grace of our Lord Jesus

Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

• or• The Lord be with you. • And with your spirit.

• Brethren (brothers and sisters), let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

• I confess to almighty God, and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do. *** through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault, therefore I ask blessed Mary, ever virgin,

• all the angels and saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

• PRIEST: May almighty God have mercy on us,

• forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.

• PEOPLE: Amen.

• Lord, have mercy (2)

• Christ, have mercy (2)

• Lord, have mercy (2)

• Glory to God in the highest,• and on earth peace to people of

good will. • We praise you,

we bless you,we adore you,we glorify you,we give you thanks for your great glory,Lord God, heavenly King,

• O God, almighty Father. • Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten

Son,Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us;you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer;

• you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.

• For you alone are the Holy One,you alone are the Lord,you alone are the Most High,Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit,in the glory of God the Father.Amen.

• COLLECT• Almighty ever-living God,• lead us to a share in the joys of

heaven,• so that the humble flock may

reach• where the brave Shepherd has

gone before.

• Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

• who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

• one God, for ever and ever.• Amen.

• FIRST READING• (Acts 4:8-12)

• A reading from the Acts of the Apostles:

• PETER, filled with the Holy Spirit, said:

• “Leaders of the people and elders:• If we are being examined today• about a good deed done to a

cripple,

• namely, by what means he was saved,

• then all of you and all the people of Israel should know

• that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene

• whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead;

• in his name this man stands before you healed.

• He is the stone rejected by you, the builders,

• which has become the cornerstone.

• There is no salvation through anyone else,

• nor is there any other name under heaven

• given to the human race by which we are to be saved.”

• The word of the Lord.• Thanks be to God.

• RESPONSORIAL PSALM• (Psalm 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28, 29)• R. (22) The stone rejected by the

builders has become the cornerstone.

• 1) Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever. It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.

• It is better to take refuge in the LORD

• than to trust in princes.• R. (22) The stone rejected by the

builders has become the cornerstone.

• 2) I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me

• and have been my savior.• The stone which the builders rejected• has become the cornerstone.• By the LORD has this been done;• it is wonderful in our eyes.• R. (22) The stone rejected by the builders

has become the cornerstone.

• 3) Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD; we bless you from the house of the LORD.

• I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me

• and have been my savior.• Give thanks to the LORD, for he is

good; for his kindness endures forever.

• R. (22) The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone.

• Second Reading• (1 Jn 3:1-2)

• A reading from the first Letter of Saint John:

• BELOVED:• See what love the Father has

bestowed on us• that we may be called the children

of God.• Yet so we are.

• The reason the world does not know us

• is that it did not know him.• Beloved, we are God’s children

now;• what we shall be has not yet been

revealed.• We do know that when it is

revealed we shall be like him,• for we shall see him as he is.

• The word of the Lord.• Thanks be to God.

• ALLELUIA • (John 10:14)

• R/. Alleluia, alleluia. - I am the good shepherd, says the Lord;

• I know my sheep, and mine know me.

• R/. Alleluia, alleluia.

• GOSPEL• (Jn 10:11-18)

• The Lord be with you. • ALL: And with your spirit. • A reading from the holy Gospel

according to John.• ALL: Glory to you, Lord.

• JESUS said:• “I am the good shepherd.• A good shepherd lays down his

life for the sheep.• A hired man, who is not a

shepherd• and whose sheep are not his own,• sees a wolf coming and leaves the

sheep and runs away,

• and the wolf catches and scatters them.

• This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep.

• I am the good shepherd,• and I know mine and mine know

me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father;

• and I will lay down my life for the sheep.

• I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.

• These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice,

• and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

• This is why the Father loves me,• because I lay down my life in

order to take it up again.

• No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own.

• I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again.

• This command I have received from my Father.”

• The Gospel of the Lord.• Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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• PROFESSION OF FAITH (Nicene Creed)• I believe in one God,

the Father almighty,maker of heaven and earth,of all things visible and invisible.

• I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,the Only Begotten Son of God,born of the Father before all ages.

• God from God, Light from Light,true God from true God,begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;through him all things were made.For us men and for our salvationhe came down from heaven,and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,and became man.

• For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.He ascended into heavenand is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in gloryto judge the living and the dead/

• and his kingdom will have no end.• I believe in the Holy Spirit, the

Lord, the giver of life,who proceeds from the Father and the Son,who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,who has spoken through the prophets.

• I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sinsand I look forward to the resurrection of the deadand the life of the world to come. Amen.

• Instead of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, especially during Lent and Easter Time, the

baptismal Symbol of the Roman Church, known as the Apostles’ Creed, may be used.

• I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,born of the Virgin Mary,

• suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died and was buried;he descended into hell;on the third day he rose again from the dead;he ascended into heaven,and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;

• from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

• I believe in the Holy Spirit,the holy catholic Church,the communion of saints,the forgiveness of sins,the resurrection of the body,and life everlasting. Amen.

• OFFERING OF BREAD• PRIEST: Blessed are you, • Lord God of all creation, • for through your goodness we have

received the bread we offer you, fruit of the earth and work of human hands.

• It will become for us the bread of life.• All: Blessed be God for ever.

• By the mystery of this water and wine • may we come to share in the divinity of Christ • who humbled himself to share in our humanity.

• OFFERING OF WINE• PRIEST: Blessed are you, • Lord God of all creation, • for through your goodness we

have received the wine we offer you: fruit of the vine and work of human hands. It will become our spiritual drink.

• All: Blessed be God for ever.

• Cel: With humble spirit and contrite heart may we be accepted by you, O Lord, and may our sacrifice in your sight this day

• be pleasing to you, Lord God.

• Cel: Wash me, O Lord, from my iniquity

• and cleanse me from my sin.

• PRIEST: Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father.

• All: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our good, and the good of all his holy Church.

• PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS• Grant, we pray, O Lord,• that we may always find delight in

these paschal mysteries,• so that the renewal constantly at

work within us• may be the cause of our unending

• Through Christ our Lord.• Amen.

• PREFACE• PRIEST: The Lord be with you.• All: And with your spirit.• PRIEST: Lift up your hearts.• All: We lift them up to the Lord.• PRIEST: Let us give thanks to the

Lord our God.• All: It is right and just.

• PREFACE I OF EASTER• It is truly right and just, our duty

and our salvation,• at all times to acclaim you, O Lord,• but (in this time) above all• to laud you yet more gloriously,• when Christ our Passover has

been sacrificed.

• For he is the true lamb• who has taken away the sins of

the world;• by dying he has destroyed our

death,• and by rising, restored our life.

• Therefore, overcome with paschal joy,

• every land, every people exults in your praise

• and even the heavenly Powers, with the angelic hosts,

• sing together the unending hymn of your glory,

• as they acclaim:

• Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts,

• Heaven and earth are full • of your glory.• Hosanna in the highest.• Blessed is he who comes • in the name of the Lord.• Hosanna in the highest.

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER II • You are indeed Holy, O Lord, • the fount of all holiness.

• * Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall,

• * so that they may become for us the Body and + Blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

• At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his Passion,

• he took bread and, giving thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying:

• Take this, all of you, and eat of it: for this is my Body which will be given up for you.

• In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice and, once more giving thanks, he gave it to his disciples, saying:

• Take this, all of you, and drink from it: for this is the chalice of my Blood, the Blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will be poured out for you and for many

• for the forgiveness of sins. • Do this in memory of me.

• Cel: The mystery of faith.• 1) We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and

profess your Resurrection until you come again.

• Or• 2) When we eat this Bread and drink this

Cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again.

• Or • 3) Save us, Savior of the world, for by your

Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.

• Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his Death and Resurrection, we offer you, Lord, the Bread of life and the Chalice of salvation, giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you.

• Humbly we pray that, partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ, we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit.

• Remember, Lord, your Church, spread throughout the world, and bring her to the fullness of charity, together with (N) our Pope and (N) our Bishop and all the clergy.

• In Masses for the Dead:Remember your servant N., whom you have called (today) from this world to yourself. Grant that he (she) who was united with your Son in a death like his, may also be one with him in his Resurrection.

• Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy: welcome them into the light of your face.

• Have mercy on us all, we pray, that with the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with blessed Joseph, her Spouse, with the blessed Apostles, and all the Saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be coheirs to eternal life, and may praise and glorify you through your Son, Jesus Christ.

• Through him, and with him, and in him, O God, almighty Father,

• in the unity of the Holy Spirit, • all glory and honor is yours, • for ever and ever.• PEOPLE: Amen.

• THE COMMUNION RITE• At the Savior’s command • and formed by divine teaching, • we dare to say:

• Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

• Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress,

• as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

• R/. For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours now and for ever.

• Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles: Peace I leave you, my peace I give you,

• look not on our sins, • but on the faith of your Church,

and graciously grant her • peace and unity in accordance

with your will. • Who live and reign for ever and

ever. Amen.

• The peace of the Lord be with you always.

• ALL: And with your spirit.

• Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

• May this mingling of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ bring eternal life to us who receive it.

• Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world:

• have mercy on us.• Lamb of God, you take away the

sins of the world: • have mercy on us.• Lamb of God, you take away the

sins of the world: • grant us peace.

• Cel: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, • who, by the will of the Father • and the work of the Holy Spirit, • through your Death gave life to the world, • free me by this, your most holy Body and Blood, • from all my sins and from every evil; • keep me always faithful to your commandments, • and never let me be parted from you.

• Or: • May the receiving of your Body and Blood, • Lord Jesus Christ, • not bring me to judgment and condemnation, • but through your loving mercy • be for me protection in mind and body • and a healing remedy.

• Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof,

• but only say the word and my soul will be healed.

Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.

• Cel: May the Body of Christ • keep me safe for eternal life.

• May the Blood of Christ • keep me safe for eternal life.

• During the purification:• What has passed our lips as food, O Lord, • may we possess in purity of heart, • that what has been given to us in time • may be our healing for eternity.

• Communion Antiphon• The Good Shepherd has risen,• who laid down his life for his sheep• and willingly died for his flock,

alleluia.

• PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION • Let us pray:• Look upon your flock, kind

Shepherd,• and be pleased to settle in eternal

pastures• the sheep you have redeemed• by the Precious Blood of your Son.

• THE CONCLUDING RITE• PRIEST: The Lord be with you.• ALL: And with your spirit.• PRIEST: May almighty God bless

you, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

• ALL: Amen.• PRIEST: Go forth, the Mass is

ended. • ALL: Thanks be to God.

• EUCHARISTIC PRAYER III• You are indeed Holy, O Lord, and

all you have created rightly gives you praise, for through your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, by the power and working of the Holy Spirit, you give life to all things and make them holy, and you never cease to gather a people to yourself,

• so that from the rising of the sun to its setting a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name.

• Therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore you: by the same Spirit graciously make holy these gifts we have brought to you for consecration, that they may become the Body and Blood of your Son our Lord Jesus Christ at whose command we celebrate these mysteries.

• For on the night he was betrayed he himself took bread, and giving you thanks he said the blessing, broke the bread and gave it to his disciples, saying:

• Take this, all of you, and eat of it: for this is my Body which will be given up for you.

• In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice, and giving you thanks he said the blessing, and gave the chalice to his disciples, saying:

• Take this, all of you, and drink from it: for this is the chalice of my Blood, the Blood of the new and eternal covenant; which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.

• Do this in memory of me.

• Cel: The mystery of faith.• 1) We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and

profess your Resurrection until you come again.

• Or• 2) When we eat this Bread and drink this

Cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again.

• Or • 3) Save us, Savior of the world, for by your

Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.

• Therefore, O Lord, we celebrate the memorial of the saving Passion of your Son, his wondrous Resurrection and Ascension into heaven, and as we look forward to his second coming, we offer you in thanksgiving this holy and living sacrifice.

• Look, we pray, upon the oblation of your Church, and, recognizing the sacrificial Victim by whose death you willed to reconcile us to yourself, grant that we, who are nourished by the Body and Blood of your Son and filled with his Holy Spirit, may become one body, one spirit in Christ.

• May he make of us an eternal offering to you, so that we may obtain an inheritance with your elect, especially with the most blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with blessed Joseph, her Spouse, with your blessed Apostles and glorious Martyrs

• (with Saint N.: the Saint of the day or Patron Saint) and with all the Saints, on whose constant intercession in your presence we rely for unfailing help.

• May this Sacrifice of our reconciliation, we pray, O Lord, advance the peace and salvation of all the world. Be pleased to confirm in faith and charity your pilgrim Church on earth, with your servant (N) our Pope and (N) our Bishop, the Order of Bishops,

• all the clergy, and the entire people you have gained for your own.

• Listen graciously to the prayers of this family, whom you have summoned before you: in your compassion, O merciful Father, gather to yourself all your children scattered throughout the world.

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• *To our departed brothers and sisters and to all who were pleasing to you at their passing from this life, give kind admittance to your kingdom.

• There we hope to enjoy for ever the fullness of your glory through Christ our Lord through whom you bestow on the world all that is good.*

• For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours now and for ever.

and graciously grant her • peace and unity • in accordance with your will. • Who live and reign for ever and

ever. Amen.

• Communion Antiphon• Lk 24: 35

• The disciples recognized the Lord Jesus

• in the breaking of the bread, alleluia.

• PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION • Let us pray:• Look with kindness upon your

people, O Lord,• and grant, we pray,• that those you were pleased to

renew by eternal mysteries• may attain in their flesh• the incorruptible glory of the

resurrection.

ended. (Or: Go in peace)• ALL: Thanks be to God.

• Remember your servant N. whom you have called [today] from this world to yourself. Grant that he (she) who was united with your Son in a death like his, may also be one with him in his Resurrection, when from the earth he will raise up in the flesh those who have died, and transform our lowly body after the pattern of his own glorious body.

In Masses for the dead, the following may be said:

• To our departed brothers and sisters, too, and to all who were pleasing to you at their passing from this life, give kind admittance into your kingdom. There we hope to enjoy for ever the fullness of your glory, when you will wipe away every tear from our eyes.

• For seeing you, our God, as you are, we shall be like you for all the ages and praise you without end, through Christ our Lord, through whom you bestow in the world all that is good.

• For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours now and for ever.

and graciously grant her • peace and unity • in accordance with your will. • Who live and reign for ever and

ever. Amen.

• Communion Antiphon• Lk 24: 35

• The disciples recognized the Lord Jesus

• in the breaking of the bread, alleluia.

• PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION • Let us pray:• Look with kindness upon your

people, O Lord,• and grant, we pray,• that those you were pleased to

renew by eternal mysteries• may attain in their flesh• the incorruptible glory of the

resurrection.

ended. (Or: Go in peace)• ALL: Thanks be to God.

• PREFACE I OF EASTER• It is truly right and just, our duty

and our salvation,• at all times to acclaim you, o Lord,• but (on this night / on this day / in

this time) above all• to laud you yet more gloriously,• when Christ our Passover has

been sacrificed.

• For he is the true lamb• who has taken away the sins of

the world;• by dying he has destroyed our

death,• and by rising, restored our life.

• PREFACE II OF EASTER• It is truly right and just, our duty

and our salvation,• at all times to acclaim you, o Lord,• but in this time above all to laud

you yet more gloriously,• when Christ our Passover has

been sacrificed.

• Through him the children of light rise to eternal life

• and the halls of the heavenly Kingdom

• are thrown open to the faithful;• for his Death is our ransom from

death,• and in his rising the life of all has

risen.

Eucharistic Prayer II > 77

• PREFACE III OF EASTER• It is truly right and just, our duty

been sacrificed.• he never ceases to offer himself

for us

• but defends us and ever pleads our cause before you:

• he is the sacrificial Victim who dies no more,

• the lamb, once slain, who lives for ever.

• PREFACE IV OF EASTER• It is truly right and just, our duty

and our salvation, • at all times to acclaim you, o Lord,

but in this time above all to laud you yet more gloriously,

• when Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

• For, with the old order destroyed,• a universe cast down is renewed,• and integrity of life is restored to

us in Christ.

• PREFACE V OF EASTER• It is truly right and just, our duty

been sacrificed.

• By the oblation of his Body,• he brought the sacrifices of old to

fulfillment• in the reality of the Cross• and, by commending himself to

you for our salvation,• showed himself the Priest, the

altar, and the lamb of sacrifice.

• PREFACE I OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD

• It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation,

• always and everywhere to give you thanks,

• lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God.

• For the lord Jesus, the King of glory, conqueror of sin and death,

• ascended (today) to the highest heavens, as the angels gazed in wonder. Mediator between God and man, judge of the world and lord of hosts, he ascended, not to distance himself from our lowly state but that we, his members, might be confident of following

• where he, our head and Founder, has gone before.

• PREFACE II OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD

• It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation,

• always and everywhere to give you thanks,

• Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God,

• through Christ our Lord.

• For after his Resurrection• he plainly appeared to all his

disciples• and was taken up to heaven in

their sight,• that he might make us sharers in

his divinity.

• Glory to God in the highest,• and on earth peace to people of

good will. • We praise you,

we bless you,we adore you,we glorify you,we give you thanks for your great glory,Lord God, heavenly King,

• O God, almighty Father. • Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten

Son,Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us;you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer;

• you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.

• For you alone are the Holy One,you alone are the Lord,you alone are the Most High,Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit,in the glory of God the Father.Amen.

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